Re: Acer 5002WLMi, Debian, and a nasty wireless chip
On Monday 30 January 2006 14:49, sjb wrote:
> Hi, All -
>
> Love my laptop, hate my wireless (Broadcom 4318), and am
> wondering if anyone has/had:
>
> a) any good response with the Broadcom43xx driver in development w/ the
> above system &/or the above wireless card.
>
> b) any knowledge/experience of an acpi/ acer_acpi patch for the 2.6.15
> kernel? I've got the source for the driver itself, but it doesn't like
> to install.
>
> c) any new ideas for getting the 4318 to work under ndiswrapper, *other*
> than the usual ones involving ndiswrapper -i, for conffile...do, and the
> like?
>
> thanks for any hints, clues tips or tricks.
>
> Steph
Although it is for a slightly different Acer one thing I found was that I
could enable the wireless card (a mini-PCI one) by interrupting pin 13
on the edge connector. I did this with a permanent marker pen.
Then the card was visible to lspci and I could point a driver at it. That
way I did not need the acer_hk driver to enable the wireless card.
David
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